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Getty Images Letter Forum / Client Received Getty Letter
« on: October 26, 2011, 08:52:36 PM »
Hello,
A client of mine just received the Getty Letter yesterday via mail. I told him I would handle it for him - I'm certainly not going to let something like this be a weight on a client's shoulders.
Here is the situation, I either purchase stock from a stock photo site, or use photos from a few free stock photo sites that I trust. (Including one that has coincidentally been acquired by Getty). For this particular image I can't track down where I got it from... yet I can for every other image on the site. I must have made a stupid mistake at some point, and trusted a source, caption, or otherwise that I shouldn't have, because the image apparently isn't publicly licensed.
Getty is asking $780 - a price that seems to be common among others recently. It was a small image used on one page of a local business site. Upon notification of the letter I immediately removed the image.
I have a few questions -
Any thoughts and responses will be greatly appreciated... starting my Tuesday with a cup of coffee and a lawsuit wasn't in my calendar this week.
A client of mine just received the Getty Letter yesterday via mail. I told him I would handle it for him - I'm certainly not going to let something like this be a weight on a client's shoulders.
Here is the situation, I either purchase stock from a stock photo site, or use photos from a few free stock photo sites that I trust. (Including one that has coincidentally been acquired by Getty). For this particular image I can't track down where I got it from... yet I can for every other image on the site. I must have made a stupid mistake at some point, and trusted a source, caption, or otherwise that I shouldn't have, because the image apparently isn't publicly licensed.
Getty is asking $780 - a price that seems to be common among others recently. It was a small image used on one page of a local business site. Upon notification of the letter I immediately removed the image.
I have a few questions -
- Of those who wrote a letter in themselves using the info on this site (or in my case, I would write one up for my client to send in), what types of responses have you seen?
- What types of success has there been with the $195 letter? Do they lower their demand? Make it go away? I know this was addressed once before, but I need some type of answer for this. I don't like blindly going into anything.
- Should I contact Getty in my name, on behalf of my client, or is that opening a can of worms/wasting time. The reason I ask, is that I would suspect they might be more willing to work out a deal for company who's website was made for them, vs for a web designer... either way, I'll be footing the bill for this.
Any thoughts and responses will be greatly appreciated... starting my Tuesday with a cup of coffee and a lawsuit wasn't in my calendar this week.